National Child Protection Clearinghouse

Welcome to the National Child Protection Clearinghouse, an information, advisory and research unit focused on child abuse prevention, child protection and out-of-home care.



NCPASS comparability of child protection data - Project report (PDF 1.3MB) by Prue Holzer & Leah Bromfield. This report, funded by the National Child Protection and Support Services Data Group (NCPASS), explores the similarities and differences in Australian child protection administrative data.

Newsletter Vol. 16 No. 2 2008: including articles on the Australian Council for Children and Youth Organisations' Safeguarding Children program; a review of Building Generations, a parenting program for adult survivors of childhood intra-familial sexual assault; and an overview of the Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners


The National Child Protection Clearinghouse is funded by the Australian Government's Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs as part of the government's response to the problem of child abuse.